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Billionaire Facebook backer puts up $100M to send nanobot spacecraft to find alien life

Yuri Milner, the Russian billionaire who backed online hits including Facebook and Twitter, is putting up $100 million in a new effort to find life on other planets. The Breakthrough Starshot project announced Tuesday by Milner and famed physicist Stephen Hawking plans to find a way to send a tiny robot spacecraft weighing a little more than a piece of paper to the Alpha Centauri star system, which is 25 trillion miles away.

 

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